HASTAC
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{{Infobox organization
| name = HASTAC
| full_name = Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory
| abbreviation = HASTAC
| pronounce = /ˈhāˌstak/
| type = Virtual organization and platform
| purpose = Fosters interdisciplinary collaboration across humanities, arts, science, and technology.
| formation = 2002
| founder = Cathy N. Davidson, David Theo Goldberg
| founding_location =
| headquarters = The Graduate Center, CUNY and Dartmouth College
| location_city = New York City, Hanover
| location_country = United States
| membership = 18000+
| membership_year =
| key_people = Cathy N. Davidson, David Theo Goldberg
| main_organ = HASTAC Scholars Program, HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition, Digital Publication Projects
| publication = Digital Humanities@digitalculturebooks
| parent_organization =
| funding = The Graduate Center, CUNY, Dartmouth College
| website = {{Official URL|https://www.hastac.org/}}
}}
HASTAC (/ˈhāˌstak/), also known as the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, is a virtual organization and platform comprising over 18,000 individuals and more than 400 affiliate institutions. Members of the HASTAC network actively contribute to the community through an open-access website,{{cite web|url=http://www.hastac.org |title=hastac.org |publisher=hastac.org |date= |access-date=2016-05-27}} by organizing and participating in HASTAC conferences and workshops, and by collaborating with fellow network members.
Until 2016, HASTAC managed the annual $2 million MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition.{{cite web|author=MacArthur Foundation |url=http://www.macfound.org/programs/learning/ |title=MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition |publisher=MacArthur Foundation |date= |access-date=2012-12-10}} The 2011 competition, titled “Badges for Lifelong Learning,” was launched in collaboration with the Mozilla Foundation and focused on the use of digital badges to motivate learning, recognize achievement, and validate the acquisition of knowledge or skills.
HASTAC has received funding from various institutions. As of 2021, HASTAC is jointly administered and funded by The Graduate Center, CUNY and Dartmouth College.
Founding
HASTAC was founded in 2002 by Cathy N. Davidson, Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and co-director of the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University and co-founder of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University,{{cite web|author=Cathy Davidson |url=http://www.cathydavidson.com/about/ |title=Cathy N. Davidson, Author of Now You See It |publisher=Cathy Davidson|date= |access-date=2012-12-12}} and David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California's statewide Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).{{cite web|author=UCHRI |url=http://uchri.org/about/staff/dr-david-theo-goldberg/ |title=David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI |publisher=UCHRI |date= |access-date=2012-12-12}}
At a meeting of humanities leaders held by the Mellon Foundation in 2002, it was noted that Davidson and Goldberg had each, independently, been working on a variety of projects with scientists and engineers dedicated to expanding the uses of technology in research, teaching, and electronic publishing. They resolved to contact others who were building and analyzing the social and ethical dimensions of new technologies and soon formed the HASTAC.
Currently, HASTAC is governed by a Steering Committee{{Cite web|title=HASTAC Leaders|url=https://www.hastac.org/collections/hastac-leaders|access-date=2021-03-30|website=HASTAC|language=en}} of individuals from different institutions and disciplines.
Programs
= HASTAC Scholars program =
In 2008, HASTAC initiated the HASTAC Scholars Program, an annual fellowship program that recognizes graduate and undergraduate students engaged in work across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. As of 2021, over 1,800 people from 260 institutions have been named HASTAC Scholars. Singletary, Kim Alecia. "Interdisciplinary intellect HASTAC and the commitment to encourage collective intelligence". Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (2012), vol 11: pp. 109-119. p. 113.
= HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition =
Created in 2007, the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition is designed to find and inspire the most uses of new media in support of connected learning.{{cite web|author=Digital Media and Learning Research Hub |url=http://connectedlearning.tv |title=Connected Learning}} Awards have recognized individuals, for-profit companies, universities, and community organizations using new media to transform learning. Information about Digital Media and Learning Competition winners can be found on HASTAC.
= Digital Publication Projects =
Digital Publication Projects: Michigan Series in Digital Humanities@digitalculturebooks and the UM/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize
The University of Michigan Press and HASTAC launched The University of Michigan Series in Digital Humanities@digitalculturebooks and the UM/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize in December 2009.{{cite web|author=University of Michigan Press |url=http://blog.press.umich.edu/2009/12/the-university-of-michigan-series-in-digital-humanitiesdigitalculturebooks-and-the-umhastac-digital |title=The University of Michigan Series in Digital Humanities@digitalculturebooks and the UM/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize}} Series editors include Julie Thompson Klein and Tara McPherson; advisory board includes Cathy N. Davidson, Daniel Herwitz, and Wendy Chun (Brown).
{{cite web|author=University of Michigan |url=http://www.digitalculture.org |title=Announcing digitalhumanities @ digitalculturebooks}} Initial 2012 winners were Jentery Sayers and Sheila Brennan.{{cite web|url=http://hastac.org/blogs/nancyholliman/2012/06/15/jentery-sayers-sheila-brennan-awarded-university-michigan-presshastac |title=Jentery Sayers and Sheila Brennan awarded University of Michigan Press/HASTAC prize Press Release, June 15, 2012}}
Events
= Conferences =
HASTAC member organizations organize international conferences.
- Eight HASTAC member institutions coordinated InFORMATION Year in 2006–2007, a year of webcast programming each focusing on a theme for one month (InCommon, InCommunity, Interplay, Interaction, InJustice, Integration, Invitation and Innovation). All culminated in Electronic Techtonics an international Interface conference co-hosted by Duke University and RENCI (the Renaissance Computing Institute) on April 19–21, 2007. All events were webcast and archived versions are available free on hastac.org for nonprofit educational purposes.{{cite web |author=HASTAC |url=http://hastac.org/informationyear |title=HASTAC InFORMATION Year Archived Resources |publisher=HASTAC |access-date=2012-12-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114051548/http://hastac.org/informationyear |archive-date=2012-11-14 }}
- HASTAC II: Techno-Travels was held in 2008 at the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI); University of California, Irvine; and the University of California, Los Angeles.{{cite web |author=HASTAC |url=http://hastac.org/hastac08conference |title=HASTAC II Conference Proceedings |publisher=HASTAC |access-date=2013-04-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303023347/http://hastac.org/hastac08conference |archive-date=2013-03-03 }}
- HASTAC III: Traversing Digital Boundaries was organized by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.{{cite web |author=HASTAC 2013 Conference |url=http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/Events/Entries/2009/4/19_HASTAC_III.html |title=HASTAC III |publisher=HASTAC 2009 Conference Organizers |access-date=2013-04-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117194534/http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/Events/Entries/2009/4/19_HASTAC_III.html |archive-date=2012-11-17 }}
- HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations hosted by I-CHASS was a free, entirely virtual event held in a multiplicity of digital spaces instigated from sites across the globe.{{cite web |author=HASTAC 2010 Conference |url=http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/hastac2010/HASTAC_2010/Welcome.html |title=HASTAC 2010 |publisher=HASTAC 2010 Conference Organizers |access-date=2013-04-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023073613/http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/hastac2010/HASTAC_2010/Welcome.html |archive-date=2010-10-23 }}
- HASTAC 2011: Digital Scholarly Communication was held at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.{{cite web|author=HASTAC 2011 Conference |url=http://www.hastac2011.org/ |title=HASTAC 2011 |publisher=HASTAC 2011 Conference Organizers |date= |access-date=2013-04-26}} (digital proceedings){{cite web |url=http://hastac.org/content/hastac-2011-digital-scholarly-communication |title=Digital Scholarly Communication: Conference Proceedings from HASTAC 2011 |publisher=HASTAC |access-date=2014-04-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419013244/http://www.hastac.org/content/hastac-2011-digital-scholarly-communication |archive-date=2014-04-19 }}
- HASTAC 2013: The Storm of Progress was held at York University and in downtown Toronto, Canada on April 25–28, 2013.{{cite web|author=HASTAC 2013 Conference |url=http://hastac2013.org/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105020108/http://hastac2013.org/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=November 5, 2012 |title=The Storm of Progress |publisher=HASTAC 2013 Conference Organizers |date= |access-date=2012-12-12}}
- HASTAC 2014: Hemispheric Pathways - Critical Makers in International Networks was hosted by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture held in Lima, Peru.{{Cite web|title=Index of /|url=http://hastac2014.org/|access-date=2021-03-30|website=hastac2014.org}}
- HASTAC 2015: Exploring the Art & Science of Digital Humanities was held at the Kellogg Center of Michigan State University.{{Cite web|title=HASTAC 2015 Conference {{!}} Michigan State University Student Loans|url=http://www.hastac2015.org/|access-date=2021-03-30}}
- HASTAC 2016: Impact, Variation, Innovation, Action was held at the Arizona State University's Nexus Lab in Tempe, AZ.{{Cite web|title=エックスサーバー サーバー初期ページ|url=http://hastac2016.org/|access-date=2021-03-30|website=hastac2016.org}}
- HASTAC 2017: The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities was held in Orlando, Florida. Sponsored and organized by the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH.org){{Cite web|title=Buying Nicotine Liquids|url=http://hastac2017.org/|access-date=2021-03-30|website=hastac2017.org}}
- HASTAC 2019: Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education was held in partnership with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia and the Department of English at the University of Victoria.{{Cite web|title=hastac 2019|url=http://hastac2019.org/|access-date=2021-03-30|website=hastac2019.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231210936/http://hastac2019.org/ |archive-date=31 December 2018 |url-status=usurped}}
- HASTAC 2020: "Hindsight, Foresight, Insight" was planned to be led by Dean Anne Balsamo, and held at the University of Texas in Dallas, but due to COVID-19, has been cancelled.{{Cite web|title=HASTAC 2020|url=https://hastac2020.org/|access-date=2021-03-30|language=en-US}}
- HASTAC 2023: Critical Making & Social Justice is scheduled to take place at Pratt Institute on June 8–10, 2023.{{Cite web |title=HASTAC 2023 – Critical Making & Social Justice |url=https://hastac2023.org/ |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=hastac2023.org}}
= Mozilla's Drumbeat Festival: Learning, Freedom and the Open Web =
HASTAC hosted the "Storming the Academy" tent, which discussed and workshopped open learning and peer-to-peer assessment strategies, ideas, and lessons, at the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona on Nov. 3–5, 2010.
= THATCampRTP =
On October 16, 2010, HASTAC hosted and helped to organize THATCamp RTP at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute.{{cite web|url=http://www.fhi.duke.edu/ |title=fhi.duke.edu |publisher=fhi.duke.edu |date=2014-03-19 |access-date=2014-04-17}} It was the first area THATCamp{{cite web|url=http://thatcamp.org/ |title=thatcamp.org |publisher=thatcamp.org |date=2014-03-31 |access-date=2014-04-17}} for the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina.